Question 1

Where Skomi differs from Mixpanel

Accepted Answer

No cookies, and so no banner. Mixpanel's own opt-out works by setting a flag in the visitor's browser cookie or local storage, which is a fair description of how it recognises people generally. Skomi derives identity on the server from a secret replaced every day, so on the default setting there is nothing on the device and nothing to consent to.
It works without an event model. Mixpanel is only as good as the events you defined, and defining them well is a project with a meeting in it. Skomi's traffic, sources, goals and funnels come from one script.
Sites are first-class, not a special case. Mixpanel grew up measuring product usage; page views, referrers and campaigns are things it can do rather than the shape it was built around.

Question 2

What Mixpanel does better

Accepted Answer

Product analytics is genuinely deeper. Cohorts, segmentation, and the behavioural questions that need a properly modelled event stream. Skomi's funnels and retention are useful and they are not this.
Ten thousand session replays a month, free, plus heatmaps and clickmaps in the same plan. As a free offer for behaviour work, that is very hard to argue with.
Years of mobile-first maturity. If the app is the main thing and the website is secondary, Mixpanel has been solving that ordering for far longer than most of this table.
Free forever, with unlimited seats. Nobody has to be left out of the tool to keep the bill down.

Question 3

Which to choose

Accepted Answer

Choose Mixpanel if product analytics is the job, you have events worth modelling, or you want a large free allowance of session replays.
Choose Skomi if you want site and app measurement with no consent banner, no event modelling before the first useful number, and acquisition, behaviour and feedback on one bill.

	Skomi	Mixpanel
Works without a cookie bannerOut of the box, with no configuration.	Yes	No
Stores something on the visitor's deviceA cookie or an id in local storage. The law treats them the same.	No	Yes
Counts every visit, without samplingBoth Google and Cloudflare sample adaptively, so a small site is not sampled at all. Hotjar does not sample; it stops, at a number of sessions set by the plan.	Yes	Not checked
Keeps your full history for as long as you are a customerSkomi does not: it deletes analytics once the plan's window has passed, and the window each plan sells is on the pricing page. A cell reads "Not checked" where the product publishes no figure we could verify. Plausible documents "5+ years" for Enterprise but states nothing for its standard plans, and Cloudflare documents no retention period at all.	No	Not checked
Sites	Yes	Yes
Mobile and desktop apps	Yes	Yes
Heatmaps	Yes	Yes
Session recordings	Yes	Yes
Feedback boards	Yes	Not checked
Reports where your traffic comes from	Yes	Yes
Data stored in the EU	Yes	Yes
Open source	No	Not checked
Can be self-hosted	No	Not checked
Surveys and user interviews	No	Not checked
More than one site on the free planSkomi's free plan carries one site, which is a real reason to pick something else if you look after several small ones. Google and Cloudflare read "Not checked" because how many sites their free tiers cover was not verified. That they HAVE a free tier is the row above.	No	Yes
Free tierSkomi's is the Hobby plan: one site, no card.	Yes	Yes

Skomi and Mixpanel